05350cam a2200793 a 4500 ocn777364386 OCoLC 20171115104658.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 120217s2012 nju ob 001 0 eng 2012007308 9781118347577 (ePub) 1118347579 (ePub) 9781118347553 (Adobe PDF) 1118347552 (Adobe PDF) 9781118347560 (MobiPocket) 1118347560 (MobiPocket) 9781118347584 (electronic bk.) 1118347587 (electronic bk.) 9780470597187 (pbk.) 0470597186 (pbk.) 9786613655981 9781118347584 AU@ 000048579170 AU@ 000049858908 AU@ 000051593903 DEBSZ 379792982 DEBSZ 39725900X NZ1 15549659 AU@ 000058044183 (OCoLC)777364386 (OCoLC)795008560 (OCoLC)804860751 (OCoLC)808412651 (OCoLC)828914504 (OCoLC)927507908 (OCoLC)956622767 (OCoLC)956625703 (OCoLC)956625734 (OCoLC)961579125 (OCoLC)962693537 10.1002/9781118347584 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com 16F04518-2A60-48E2-A886-B3831F7FDC6A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com DLC eng pn DLC YDX EBLCP N$T MERUC COO E7B YDXCP TEFOD DG1 IEEEE ZMC UBY IUL OCLCF DEBSZ AU@ CEF CDX OCLCO TEFOD OCLCQ RDF LOA D6H DG1 OCLCQ pcc MAIN GV1469.3 GAM 013000 bisacsh 794.8 23 COM012040 bisacsh Game invaders : the theory and understanding of computer games / Clive Fencott [and others]. [electronic resource] Hoboken, New Jersey : IEEE Press ; Wiley, 2012. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier IEEE Computer Society Publications Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I. Why Do People Play Games? -- 1. You Are the One -- Tools to Think With -- Getting Started -- 2. Genre -- What Are Genres? -- What Are Genres For? -- Genre Maps -- Computer Game Genres -- A Theory of Computer Game Genres -- 3. Activity -- The Story of Activity Groups -- An Overview of Activity Profiles -- Three Driving Games -- Calculating Genres -- Tasks -- 4. Pleasure -- Aesthetics and Computer Games -- Spacewar -- Zork -- Pac-Man -- Comparative Aesthetics -- Tasks -- 5. Two Rail-Shooters -- Star Fox and Rez -- Activity Profiling and Genre Theory -- Applying Aesthetic Theory -- The Method of Game Analysis -- Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Rez, and Beyond -- 6. Why Don't People Play Games -- What Do We Mean by Games? -- Resident Evil -- Why Not Ask the Players? -- Emotional Models of Play -- Player Types -- Demographic Research -- Why Don't People Play Games? -- Conclusions -- Part II. What Is a Game? -- 7. Just an Ordinary Day -- The Glass Vial -- Unrealisms -- Perceptual Opportunities -- Sureties -- Surprises -- Attractors -- Connectors -- Rewards -- Getting It All Together in SinCity -- Perceptual Mapping in SinCity -- AS-OceanFloor -- 8. Big Bad Streets -- Driver School -- Sureties -- Surprises -- Driver and SinCity Comparisons -- 9. Time to Visit Yokosuka -- Shenmue -- Genre and Activity Profile -- Aesthetics -- Shenmue POs -- PSAS and Cut Scenes -- Interactive Storytelling? -- And On With General Aesthetics -- 10. Meaning What? -- Semiotics and Signs -- Pac-Man's Signs -- Icons, Indexes, and Symbols -- Denotation, Connotation, and Myth -- Syntagms and Paradigms -- Codes -- Making Up Pac-Man -- Filling Gaps -- 11. All Work and Play -- The Work of Meaning -- Signs of Interaction -- The Mechanics of Interaction -- The Inside-Out Code -- Where Is the Player? -- 12. Big Game Hunting -- Semiosphere -- The Code of Interaction -- The Myth of Interaction -- What Is a Game? -- How Do You Get Out of Here? -- Big Game Hunting -- Glossary -- List of Games -- Bibliography -- Index. "Introduces a practical critical method for analyzing existing games and designing future games"-- Provided by publisher. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Computer games. Computer games Design. Video games. Video games Design. COMPUTERS Programming Games. bisacsh Computer games. fast (OCoLC)fst00872108 Computer games Design. fast (OCoLC)fst00872112 Video games. fast (OCoLC)fst01166421 Video games Design. fast (OCoLC)fst01166425 COMPUTERS Programming Games. Electronic books. Electronic books. local Fencott, P. C. Print version: Game invaders. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012 9780470597187 (DLC) 2012002566 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118347584 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 205594 205594